The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08

ceived only nine lessons showed re-
markable proficiency in the language.
Volapuk enjoys the very enviable dis
tinction of being the only tongue on
earth in which the rules have no ex-
ceptions.
WHAT is called higher education is a
luxury, and too often, like every other
luxury, enervates men for the business
of getting an honest living. To edu-
cate, beyond his calibre, boy who
must make his own way in the world is
worse than not to educate him at all.
The extent to which overrefinement
weakens principle, reverses instinct
and deadens sympathy is standing
proof of the truth of Thoreaus saying
that there may be an excess of cult
walton, as of everything else, until cul-
tivation becomes pathetic" To de-
velop wants in youth which it is prob
able he can never crafty is to add to
his temptations, and is to society a
curse more often than Otherwise
The Open Court"
IT is difficult to play democrat and
mugwump at the same time. Just
which Mr.. Cleveland really is we don't
know. He acts like both. Sometimes
the mugwump feature predominates,
sometimes the democratic. Now and
then he will please Mr.. George William
Curtis, the Springfield Republican and
the Evening Post by making an appoint
ment or retaining an appointee against
the loud opposition of the democratic
politicians and the democratic news
papers. Again he will remove a great
batch of republican postmasters in
Indiana and fill their places with re-
cruits from the democratic ranks,
merely for the purpose of rewarding
party workers and pleasing democratic
leaders, to the great disgust of his
mugwump friends in New York and
New England.-KanSoS City Journal.
THE Boston Herald declares that
Mr.. Garland is an embarrassment and
an injury to the administration and
that he ought, therefore, to resign
This is true, and it suggests another
truth which the Herald will not recog-
nize. If Mr.. Garland is an injury to
the administration and will not with
draw from the cabinet voluntarily he
ought to be compelled to resign. The
one man who can compel him is Presi-
dent Cleveland. If the attorney-gen-
erals continuance in office is wrong
and an improperly, the President
makes that wrong and improperly his
own by allowing him to remain, and
every criticism of the one involves a
criticism of the other. The fact that
neither the Herald nor any other mug
wump paper which calls for the resig-
nation of Mr.. Garland denounces the
President for failing to remove him
only affords another illustration of the
absurd demand of these organs that
Mr.. Cleveland shall be judged by a
standard of official propriety and re-
sponsibility peculiarly and exclusively
his own. All other presidents have
been held strictly accountable to the
people for the retention of unworthy
and discreditable officials in high
places, but Mr.. Cleveland's admirers
insist upon an exception in his favor in
this as in all other cases.-Concord
Monitor.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says there
is considerable doubt as to the legality of
the acts of the interstate commerce COM
mission. Good lawyers hold this COM
mission is not composed of a class of
officers who can be appointed during a
recess of the senate. Great stress is
laid upon the assertion that as the Of
! fees of the interstate commerce COM
mission are "new offices " the Presi-
dent had no legal right to fill them
without the advice and consent of the
senate. The places were not vacancies
according to the Interpretation of that
word as repeatedly given by the senate,
or even if they be conceded to be va
cancies they did not happen during a
recess of the senate. They existed
twenty-seven days while the senate was
in session, and as reminder to the
executive the act in express terms re-
| quires that " the provisions relating to
the appointment and organization of
the commission herein provided shall
take effect Immediately" but as is
well known the President did not APP
point the commission until after con-
gress expired. Ex-senator Boutwell,
expresses the opinion that when the
question of the constitutionaity of the
interstate commerce law shall have
been brought squarely before the SUI
preme court of the United States for
adjudication the latter will crush out
that anomalous hybrid eXtra-legislative
eXtra-eXecutive, eXtra-judicial tribunal
by declaring it unconstitutional"